Timeline
Timeline articles and guides
Jin Yong's Novel Timeline: The Complete Chronological Reading Order
From the Tang Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty — placing all 15 Jin Yong novels in historical order reveals an epic sweep of Chinese history.
How the Condor Trilogy Connects: Characters, Weapons, and Secrets Across 155 Years
The hidden connections between Jin Yong's three greatest novels — how characters, techniques, and objects link generations across a century and a half.
Jin Yong's Writing Career: From Newspaper Journalist to Literary Legend
The remarkable life of Louis Cha — how a Hong Kong newspaper editor became the most widely read Chinese author in history.
A Timeline of Jin Yong's Novels: When Each Story Takes Place
Jin Yong's fourteen novels span eight centuries of Chinese history, from the Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty. Here is when each story happens and why the historical setting matters.
A Timeline of Jin Yong's Martial World: From the Song Dynasty to the Qing
Jin Yong's fourteen novels span eight hundred years of Chinese history. The martial world evolves across this timeline — techniques are invented and lost, sects rise and fall, and the nature of heroism changes.